Lady Mary Coke

McArdell, James (ca. 1729-1765)

Ramsay, Allan (1713-1784) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1762

Height:

51.1 cm  (20 1/8 in.)

Width:

36.8 cm  (14 1/2 in.)

(sheet dimensions); image: 18 1/2 × 13 7/8 inches (47 × 35.2 cm)

Technique / Medium:

mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper

Description

This full-length portrait of Lady Mary Coke shows her wearing an elegant gown and holding a theorbo as she stands beside a fortepiano in an interior colonnade.

People as subjects

Coke, Mary,‏ ‎Lady (1726-1811) (Musician portrait)

Iconclass

48C723
portrait of a musician
B1BB2(LADY MARY COKE)11
historical person (LADY MARY COKE) - BB - historical (LADY MARY COKE) portrayed alone
61B(+55)
historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life) (+ full length portrait)
48C7323
lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo
48C7333
pianoforte

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Theorbo [3473]
Pianoforte [2299]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Barringer, Timothy J. Art & music in Britain: Four encounters, 1730-1900 (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2006) 16, 18.

Fison, Vanessa. The matchless vale: The story of Ham and Petersham and their people (Richmond, Surrey: Ham and Petersham Association, 2009) 115.

Notes

A slightly different version of this print (with minor differences in details and identifying text printed on lower border) is held by the National Portrait Gallery, London (RIdIM item 6258). Lady Mary Coke was active as a writer: her journals and correspondence were collected and published, and are available in print or on microfilm.

RIdIM record id

6257